DRAWING NEAR TO OUR DEAR LORD JESUS, CANNOT HAPPEN UNLESS THE COMMANDS OF GOD, THE FEAR OF OUR LORD, MERCY, FAITH, GRACE, THE PROMISES, AND THE EXPERIENTIAL PERFECT LOVE OF JESUS BEING POURED OUT UPON US, ARE ALL WORKING TOGETHER SIMULTANEOUSLY. THE FEAR OF OUR LORD CANNOT BE UNTIED FROM HIS DEMAND AND COMMAND FOR US TO BE PERFECT OR HOLY. THIS DEMAND OF HOLINESS PUTS AT THE FEET OF JESUS CRYING OUT FOR MERCY AS WE ACCESS HIS GRACE, BY FAITH BY BELIEVING HIS PROMISES, AND WE FEEL HIS LOVING ARMS GENTLY RAISING US UP AND SAYING UNTO US, FEAR NOT, I HAVE NOT ONLY DIED FOR YOU, BUT I HAVE FULFILLED THE MORAL LAW FOR YOU, CALLED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, WHICH I WILL IMPUTE TO YOU BY A SUPERNATURAL FAITH WHICH COMES WITH THE PACKAGE OF THE NEW CREATION. STOP TREMBLING, THIS RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD, WHICH I WILL IMPUTE TO YOU, IS A ROBE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS COVERING YOU AND SHIELDING YOU FROM MY FATHER’S WRATH AGAINST YOU, FOR HE NOW SEES MY PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO HIM, AS YOUR PERFECT OBEDIENCE TO HIM, WHICH MAKES YOU HOLY IN HIS SIGHT AND FIT FOR HEAVEN. I WHO KNEW NO SIN WAS MADE ORIGINAL SIN, THAT IS, YOUR ORIGINAL SIN WAS IMPUTED TO ME BY MY FATHER, AND THUS, BEING A JUST GOD, HE HAD TO POUR OUT HIS WRATH UPON ME IN HELL IN YOUR STEAD, THIS IS CALLED MY PASSIVE OBEDIENCE TO MY FATHER, BUT I ALSO FULFILLED THE MORAL LAW FOR YOU AS A GIFT TO YOU WHICH IS CALLED MY ACTIVE OBEDIENCE FOR YOU: BOTH MY PASSIVE AND ACTIVE OBEDIENCE ARE CALLED THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD WHICH IS MY GIFT TO YOU WHEN YOU LAY HOLD OF IT BY FAITH AS YOUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN. 2 COR. 5: [21] For he(MY FATHER) hath made him(ME, CHRIST) to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that WE might be MADE the RIGHTEOUSNESS of GOD in him(ME,CHRIST).
